Example sentences of "[vb -s] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the accompanying stream drops over a ledge , it is a signal to retreat and return to daylight . |
| 2 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 3 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 4 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 5 | WITHIN THE first five minutes of Phallus In Wonderland , a surly youth vomits over a tramp , has a hook shoved through the back of his head and is transported off to a distant planet to meet cartoon barbarian grunge rockers GWAR . |
| 6 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 7 | The raster-coded image , in its simplest form , has the value ‘ 1 ’ wherever the cell lies over a line and the value ‘ O ’ otherwise . |
| 8 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 9 | The examples all have the same structure : a well-defined quantity is recorded at successive equally-spaced time points over a specific period . |
| 10 | So instead , and still twenty-four , Gustave sits over a map with Du Camp and plans a monster journey to Asia . |
| 11 | Now it seems that the disease builds over a period of years . |
| 12 | Inexpensive seed propagators consist of a transparent plastic lid that fits over a normal seed tray or a number of small plastic or expanded polystyrene ‘ cells ’ held in an outer drip tray . |
| 13 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 14 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 15 | If the water coming out of taps ( mainly hot ones ) slows over a period of time , the problem is likely to be scale in the pipes — especially if you have a direct hot water system ( see page 48 ) . |
| 16 | The city parasites were also massing as thick as flies over a turd : smooth-skinned lads , cloak-twitchers , quacks , night wanderers , mimes and petty sorcerers . |
| 17 | It may be reached on foot by using a track leaving the Ullapool road four miles out of Kylesku : this climbs over a high saddle before reaching the stream which can be followed down to the lip of the fall . |
| 18 | In the pleasant countryside around the roofless ruin of Courthill House ( not destroyed by fire as may be supposed but dismantled by its owner to avoid paying rates ) , the road turns sharply east to enter a ravine where waterfalls are to be seen , and then climbs over a low ridge to descend to Lochcarron . |
| 19 | From Acharacle , the A.861 climbs over a low ridge to Salen , a village on the shore of Loch Sunart , reaching it through a pleasant woodland and between ditches of yellow flag iris . |
| 20 | It was Fred Wilton who devised the theory that if carp were offered HNV baits over a long enough period , i.e. through extensive pre-baiting , they would eventually recognise that they were good for them , and seek out these baits in preference to low protein types such as bread , worms , potatoes or , indeed , even natural food . |
| 21 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 22 | Grammatical change occurs over a much longer time scale than lexical change . |
| 23 | If the acceleration of a system occurs over a small number of steps then the phase excitation timings can be generated by digital integrated circuits . |
| 24 | Where rifting occurs over a mantle plume the sub-lithospheric mantle will be up to 200°C hotter than normal and large quantities of magma will be generated . |
| 25 | However , we can illustrate the most important features by considering just two types of motion , each of which occurs over a significant sub-range . |
| 26 | Sometimes this happens over a long period , as a person finds himself constrained to attend a Christian place of worship , or drawn to read the Christian scriptures . |
| 27 | For monthly savings , Mr Murrell recommends Friendly Society plans over a 10-year period because the money grows tax free . |
| 28 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 29 | The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free . |
| 30 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |